This year in year 8 we went to Rayong for our residential, it was great fun. We started activities straight away. The first activity we did was the mangrove hike, it was an hour and twenty minutes long. We saw many of the animals we learnt about at school like the mudskipper, fiddler crab and pit viper, the guide said that we were very lucky to see the pit viper as they were very rare to spot. After the mangrove visit we went to the turtle conservation centre, everybody was excited. I guess we underestimated the clean up! We thought it was only wiping the walls from the outside, but it wasn’t! We had to get in the pool and scrub the floors hard. After the aquarium visit everyone had gotten the fright of their lives after the day we headed to the hotel. We settled into our rooms and had some free time. The next few days we were having lots of fun but half of Y8 were homesick..
On the second day we had what everyone was dreading… The Beach Clean Up! We had to wear proper shoes so that nothing sharp stuck under our foot. We collected 2 kg of trash more than last year!